Jane Leavy is the author of biographies of Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle and a baseball novel, Squeeze Play. Before participating in a panel on how drugs have changed baseball, she talked Greek yogurt, Philip Roth, and the sunset over Cape Cod Bay in the Zócalo green room.
Newly engaged, I was on a plane to baseball spring training when I picked up my very first bridal magazine. Inside, I came across the news (to me) that Dodger …
Major League Baseball’s “Steroid Era” of the 1990s is over, but what should we make of the athletes who played during that time and the records they set? And, how …
As Major League Baseball teams practice for the opening of a new season, some fans dream of home runs from an up-and-coming star. Others pine for strikeouts by their team’s …
For decades, major league baseball players have been doing drugs of various sorts to improve their performance: amphetamines that got players amped up for games and through the long season …
I have always been a Red Sox fan; genes and geography—I grew up in Boston—saw to that. But this year I became a baseball fan, rooting not only for the …
